Tissue Donors Treated Like Laboratory Rats?

Updated Dec. 23, 2006 12:01 a.m. ET

It is hoped that the Eighth Circuit Court will overturn the decision of federal Judge Stephen Limbaugh to disregard written agreements, federal guidelines and the wishes of six thousand tissue donors in order to take prostrate tissue samples away from the scientist who gathered them, Dr. William Catalona -- who is the most likely to use them in research to the greatest advantage.

Michael Crichton certainly makes the case for honoring the wishes of the donors who supplied the tissues ("Body Snatchers, 2006,"...